Category: Creating Pottery
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A Tip On Blogging –Write On Paper Before Typing
Writing a blog can be daunting, especially for beginners. See how writing on paper has helped me over the year to write.
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Does Kermit’s Cousin Play Bongos? My Mr. Frog Does
With a ball of clay I created a frog playing bongos.
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More Experimenting With Mocha Diffusion – This Time On Pottery
My first cup with the teal green mason stains worked the best. Tobacco tea is the acid base.
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Adding Glass To Pottery – A Crackling Glass Effect
How I used glass to give my Christmas ornaments a crackle glass look.
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Keep Calm & Create – Sculpting Animals Calms Me
I like to sculpt animals but haven’t made very many of them. I plan to make more of them starting with this bear getting honey.
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Under-glaze Ceramic Paint Used As Finger Paint
try not to be perfect as mistakes might turn out better.
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Embossed Rolling Pins- Are They Cut Deep Enough?
Have you ever bought something to use of poor quality and were disappointed enough to quit using it? Or did you buy a better quality item that was a success? A few years ago I saw decorative laser-cut rolling pins on Instagram for making cookies. One rolling pin had reindeer and Christmas trees on it.…
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Record Your Creative Ideas- Don’t Forget Them
Do you ever have a great idea to do something, then totally forget what it was? I have that problem too. As I go about my day ideas of what I can create with clay pop into my head. When I go to make pottery my mind goes blank as to what I could make. …
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When An Acid-Base Ceramic Stain Touches Alkaline Clay Magic Happens
I have been watching videos of potters doing a ceramic technique called Mocha Diffusion. It looks so cool. I had to try it. A ceramic stain is mixed with an acid-base liquid such as tea, tobacco, or Listerine for colour. A drop of it is dripped onto greenware pottery covered with an alkaline clay slip.…
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What Colour Will My Green Glaze Turn Out This Time?
I carved thisbowl toenhance thebrown in the green glaze